tye

A variant of tie.

tye (plural tyes)

1. Obsolete form of tie.
   • 1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding., Section 3. § 6:

     the events or actions, which the writer relates, must be connected together, by some bond or tye

2. (nautical) A chain or rope, one end of which passes through the mast, and is made fast to the center of a yard; the other end is attached to a tackle, by means of which the yard is hoisted or lowered.

Inherited from Middle English teye (“chest, coffer”), from a combination of Old English tēah and Old French teie (both "chest").

tye (plural tyes)

1. (mining) A trough for washing ores.
   • 1778, William Pryce, Mineralogia Cornubiensis:

     But if each Ore is of equal gravit , and I apprehend some poor Tin Ore, which they call dry for Metal, may be less ponderous than Copper Ore) if the tye will not separate them, they should be first cleansed […]

From Old English tīh (“plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīh. Cognate with Old Frisian ty (“thingstead”), Middle Low German tî, tigge, whence northern German Thie (“old thingstead, village square”).

tye (plural tyes)

1. (British) A patch of common land, often a village green.

tye (third-person singular simple present tyes, present participle tyeing, simple past and past participle tyed)

1. Obsolete form of tie.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 20:

     Nine hundred of the ſtrongeſt Men were employed to draw up theſe Cords by many Pulleys faſtned on the Poles, and thus, in leſs than three Hours, I was raiſed and flung into the Engine, and there tyed faſt.

• -ety, ety, tey, yet

tye

1. plural of tyd (“time”)
2. plural of ty (“tide”)

tye

1. alternative form of teye (“cord, chain”)

tye

1. alternative form of teye (“chest, enclosure”)

tye

1. alternative form of teyen

tye

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